If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.